Her Majesty and the Princes passing through the Crystal Palace

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Artist/Maker	Ackermann & Co. (printer and publisher) Sharles, H. (artist)
Place of origin	Great Britain (printed and published)

This lithograph shows Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their children at the Great Exhibition of 1851. The venue was the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London. Prince Albert had helped to set up the Great Exhibition. He appointed the Royal Commission to decide on the content, the building and its site. Queen Victoria opened the exhibition in the purpose-built Crystal Palace on 1 May 1851.

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Categories	Prints Great Exhibition
Object type	Print
Title	Her Majesty and the Princes passing through the Crystal Palace (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Lithograph Lithographic Ink Lithography
Brief description	Print, showing Queen Victoria passing through the Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace, 1851
Physical description	print, showing the Royal Procession through the Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace
Dimensions	Image height: 258mm Image width: 356mm Plate height: 316mm Plate width: 441mm Sheet height: 376mm Sheet width: 540mm
Subjects depicted	Victoria (Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India) Albert (Prince Consort, Consort of Queen Victoria) Great Exhibition
Places depicted	Crystal Palace Hyde Park London
Summary	This lithograph shows Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their children at the Great Exhibition of 1851. The venue was the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London. Prince Albert had helped to set up the Great Exhibition. He appointed the Royal Commission to decide on the content, the building and its site. Queen Victoria opened the exhibition in the purpose-built Crystal Palace on 1 May 1851.
Bibliographic reference	Julius Bryant, ed. Art and Design for All. The Victoria and Albert Museum London: V&A Publishing, 2011. ISBN: 9781851776665.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	19656

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Record created	November 11, 2003
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O85509/her-majesty-and-the-princes-print-sharles-h/

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